As your spiritual coach for your important life cycle event, whether
it be a happy or a sad one, Miriam Shulamit will be there for you
fully, offering individualized kabbalistic and Jewish teachings,
guided meditation, healing, guidance and counseling as needed to
help you and family members be calm, present, with open hearts
to truly grow through this event. Additionally, Miriam will help
you create meaningful rituals for yourself and/or will guide your
participation in existing rituals so you will have spiritually
nourishing, life affirming and emotionally bonding rituals to mark
this important life cycle event. And mos t importantly should you
desire, Miriam will offer her physical presence to support you
directly at your important life cycle event.

Miriam Shulamit (Mindy Ribner), Director of Beit Miriam, is a
licensed social worker, and is ordained as a mashipiya and rabbinical
pastor by Rabbi Zalman Schecter Shalomi.

“Mindy, your presence
throughout my wedding process -- before, during, and after
-- added so much depth and sensitivity to my process of becoming
a bride. Your insights helped me tune in emotionally, spiritually
and Jewishly to what it means to become a bride in the inner
and outer
realm. Your leadership, sensitivity, and tremendous wisdom inspired me
and those around me to create a wedding that truly encapsulated what
marriage means to me. Without you, it would have been very difficult
to uncover these layers. Thank you, Mindy, for all of your help throughout
the entire weekend. Thanks to you I felt calm, joyful, mindful, and present
at every moment of the wedding weekend. Every bride should be so lucky
as to have you as her guide." (Vered
Hankin Kaufman)

“My heart speaks
of Mindy Ribner in with much love and gratitude for having
her in my life and in my family's life. She is a deep, spiritual,
angelic soul who is there in a "holy" way to help
others. She is more than a therapist, a rabbi, a friend...she
is truly a gift from Hashem for all who are blessed to have
met her. She not only helped me out of a complete nervous
breakdown, with her soft and spiritual tenderness, she helped
my cousin while she was dying at a very young age of ovarian
cancer, even from afar. My cousin a frightened wonderful
soul, young, no husband, no children, did not want to die.
She was in such denial as her body broke down and the cancer
spread throughout causing terrible pain and suffering. nevertheless,
she wanted to live and fight her cancer forever. Unfortunately
for her, G-d had different plans for her and her fight to
hold on, though heroic, was excruciatingly painful, for her,
and for those who loved her. Mindy Ribner had only
met my cousin in person 5-6 times and then had to leave for
her Florida winter last year. Well, when we reached out to
Mindy to help my shriveling cousin, not only was she was
there, she was our rescuer. Mindy was an integral part in
helping my cousin to find inner peace through her pain and
suffering. She did this all over the phone which we held
to my cousin's ear as she gasped for breaths just to listen.
She helped my cousin to finally let go and trust G-d, whom
she never believed in before, just through speaking with
Mindy or listening to Mindy over the telephone. She heard
Mindy's spiritual messages when she no longer could talk
due to her lungs having been filled up with fluid and cancer,
and when she weighed less than 75 lbs and was cringing in
pain.. Had it not been for Mindy's touching, loving and spiritual
manner, I honestly don't believe my cousin would ever have
passed in peace. They even said the shema together on the
phone 2 days before my cousin passed on. She let go
and she let go peacefully, because of the heart and soul
of Mindy Ribner. Melinda Ribner is a true gift from G-d to
all of us. " (Melinda
Lowell Paltrow)